Key takeaways from PublicSource’s interview with Superintendent of Pittsburgh Public Schools Anthony Hamlet

Superintendent of Pittsburgh Public Schools Anthony Hamlet sits at his desk in June on the last day of the 2016-17 school year. (Photo by Natasha Khan/PublicSource)

Closing racial achievement gaps, reducing the number of student suspensions, improving third-grade literacy, including more Black students in the gifted program and diversifying the district-wide teaching staff.

Those items represent just a partial “to-do” list that Pittsburgh Public Schools Superintendent Anthony Hamlet has created after his first year at the helm of the city schools.

In a wide-ranging Facebook Live interview with PublicSource, Hamlet outlined some of his plans for the district — most of which are included in his recently released five-year strategic plan — and how he will hold himself publicly responsible with an online “dashboard” he expects to be operating by the time school starts next fall.